POLICING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: The enthusiasm gap

Authors

  • Antony Altbeker Institute for Security Studies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159/2413-3108/2005/i11a1018

Keywords:

domestic violence, policing, police, South Africa, domestic violence act, implementation

Abstract

Those monitoring the Domestic Violence Act generally conclude that it is poorly understood and badly implemented by officials in the criminal justice system. But a project aimed at understanding how ordinary cops police South Africa’s streets concludes that part of the problem with this conclusion is a failure to grasp the real limitations – legal, logistical and emotional – under which policing operates. These limitations, combined with the sheer volume of cases, affect the way in which ordinary officers handle these incidents.

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Published

2006-03-08

Issue

No. 11 (2005): March 2005

Section

Research articles

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